{"id":16985,"date":"2023-10-06T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:47:35","slug":"in-other-business-news-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2023\/10\/in-other-business-news-121\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0ARKO Corp<\/strong>. has appointed Richard Guidry to the newly created role of Senior VP of Foodservice.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc<\/strong>. is planning to sell 68 of its Circle K convenience stores across 21 states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Family Express Corp<\/strong>. announced plans to open more than 20 new convenience stores in Indiana.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> has promoted Eric Stover to President and Prabash Coswatte to COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced Christopher Testa will step down as President of the company. Sandy Douglas, currently CEO, will take on the additional role of President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open approximately 60 stores in Ohio over the next eight to 10 years, with the first locations projected to open by mid-2025. The retailer also announced it plans to open its first store in Indiana by mid-2025.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bloomingdale\u2019s<\/strong> will open a new 19,000 sq. ft. store in Seattle, WA, on November 2.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. reported the promotion of Cody Klimkofski to IT Software Engineer. The company has hired Whitney Bullion as a Forest Product Trader, and Steve Poole as Territory Sales Manager.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. has recently opened its first store in Montana. The retailer now has a location in all 48 states within the continental U.S.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Macy\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open up to 30 new smaller format stores through fall 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings<\/strong> recently opened its 500th store. It is also the first location in Iowa. The retailer also opened its first Midwest distribution center in Princeton, IL.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0PPG Architectural Coatings<\/strong> announced that it has named its President and CEO, Tim Knavish, as Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> announced it will close 9 of its stores in San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Portland, OR; and Seattle, WA, effective October 21. The retailer cited an increase in theft and organized retail crime as the reason for the closures.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0US LBM Holdings, LLC<\/strong> announced that it has acquired Manning Building Supplies Inc<\/strong>., with 7 locations in Florida.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. announced its Chief Information Officer, Hsiao Wang, is no longer at the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Your Building Centers Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has hired Ted Garrett as the company\u2019s new VP of Manufacturing and Installed Sales.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bad Ass Coffee<\/strong> of Hawaii has named Gregg Koffler as Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> is testing an automated makeline that would be used for bowls and salads. The company claims that 65% of digital orders are bowls and salads and that this automated process would free employees to focus on in-store customers and improve order accuracy.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Domino\u2019s<\/strong> is collaborating with Microsoft to develop an in-house generative AI that will improve order processing and automate some back of house tasks.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0El Pollo Loco<\/strong> has named Jill Adams as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Krispy Kreme<\/strong> is exploring a sale of their Insomnia Cookies brand that they acquired in 2018. The company is going in a new direction and wants to focus exclusively on their doughnut brand.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Slim Chickens<\/strong> has entered the UK with 2 new locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Starbucks<\/strong> has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court\u2019s decision to force the company to re-hire formerly terminated employees from a Memphis store that were originally fired amid a union dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0ARKO Corp. has appointed Richard Guidry to the newly created role of Senior VP of Foodservice. \u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc. is planning to sell 68 of its Circle K convenience stores across 21 states. \u2022\u00a0Family Express Corp. announced plans to open more than 20 new convenience stores in Indiana. \u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group has… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}